Murecho is a low-stroke contrast, flat terminal Gothic style (“sans serif”) Japanese typeface designed for text settings in Japan. It covers Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji (JOYO+). It also supports Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek. Murecho is available in 9 practical weights and as a variable font.
For anyone who knows me, knows I have a deeply-rooted connection to Japan. As a teenager, I was an exchange student to Murecho, a beautiful town in Kagawa Prefecture on Shikoku, the smallest of the four main islands in Japan. Traveling to Japan was the first time I had traveled abroad since I left Azores for the US as a young child. It wasn’t until I stepped foot in Japan, and in Mure, that I felt like I had a hometown. Nothing felt ‘right’ or intentional until then. Now, I have life-long friends and an extended family with a connection to those people, that town, and country. In 2006, I learned that Murecho would be merged into the expanded city of Takamatsu. I understood the reasoning and the pragmatism behind better supporting the municipality, but it was still difficult to accept as that name meant something to me. So, it was a very easy decision when tasked to name this new typeface… Murecho would live on in a new environment and shared with everyone.